England
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Commentary
On the Road to Nowhere
This was the Prime Ministers Road to Brexit speech, meant to be the crescendo of a series of public performances to put us all at […]
2nd Mar'18 13 -
Commentary
The Excruciating Detail of Existence
Fair play to Molly Scott Cato – the Green MEP – who is taking David Davis to court over Brexit. Here she is questioned by […]
11th Dec'17 1 -
Brexit
Brexit and the art of Deflection
A few days ago The European Union provided an “absolute deadline” in ten days, for Britain to improve progress on outstanding issues, before turning to […]
28th Nov'17 56 -
Commentary
Values of the Vicarage
Can you feel it? Everyone coming together like a 1970s Coca-Cola ad? As our unelected PM put it in her Easter message to the masses: […]
17th Apr'17 0 -
Commentary
Authentic Nations
The question of authenticity is crucial for nations storyboarding. A hundred-thousand undergraduate essays must have quoted Benedict Anderson’s “imagined communities” (by the way in Anderson’s […]
7th Mar'17 29 -
Commentary
Clown Coup
It’s difficult not to be smug when looking across the pond at the depths that US politics has sunk to. Gone are the days when […]
10th Oct'16 28 -
Commentary
Brexit Means Racism
Hatred is spewing out of the Conservative conference and the wider English political culture. Till now most of it has been avoided, ignored or tolerated […]
5th Oct'16 83 -
Commentary
This is England
In the first of a series of articles looking at contemporary English culture and politics in the run-up to St George’s Day 2016, Jay Griffiths […]
15th Apr'16 39 -
Commentary
Long to Reign Over Us
The state broadcaster and the amassed media horde (grateful for something to distract us from the embarrassing phenomenon of people reclaiming their humanity in the […]
8th Sep'15 54 -
Commentary
Whatever Happened to the Tories, Ma?
All the way through the referendum, I could feel my Tory ancestors tugging away at my insides somewhere. As I watched the various intimidating manoeuvres […]
3rd Jul'15 30 -
Commentary
Oh! Take me back to dear old Blighty
What does the media frenzy over Richard III tell us about Englishness? Probably nothing new. At the core of modern English identity, at least in […]
28th Mar'15 33 -
Commentary
Notes from Jockistan
By Mike Small Yesterday Chris Roycroft-Davis was not a happy-chappy. “When George Osborne, Chancellor of the United Kingdom, today presents a Budget that will be […]
19th Mar'15 46 -
Commentary
England After Scotland
In a recent Counterfire article on the Scottish referendum campaign Alex Snowdon used a rarely mentioned phrase, the ‘English Left’. Apart from a few mavericks, amongst whom […]
23rd Sep'14 29
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